Bell Nunnally Partner Brent Turman, Senior Associate T.J. Hales and Associate Meredith Palmer successfully fended off a request for preliminary injunction in a matter related to the music of a prominent deceased musical artist. The defendants, whom the Estate has claimed are interlopers attempting to unlawfully profit from the artist’s music, sought a preliminary injunction to prevent the Estate from releasing music written and performed by the artist during his lifetime. One of the defendants claimed he was a producer because he helped with recording sessions of one of the to-be-released songs. The court denied the defendants’ request and found that the defendants did not proffer evidence of co-authorship, among other things.  Accordingly, the Estate was able to release an album, which skyrocketed up the Apple Music charts for the respective genre.